To counter the increase in violent crimes during meetings to conduct online transactions, San Diego is joining other cities across the country by designating parking spots outside police stations for buyers and sellers to complete online transactions.

The police station in Rancho Peñasquitos is the first of its kind in the county.

While officers do not actively monitor the transactions, the well-lit, marked parking spaces are monitored by surveillance cameras 24 hours a day. And they are in clear view of the front doors of the Northeastern Division station, at 13396 Salmon Road.

The San Mateo County Sheriff's Office will start an “Internet Safe Exchange Zone” in San Mateo County this week.

The exchange zone is at the Maple Street Correctional Center in Redwood City, one of the safest buildings in the Peninsula. The new state-of-the-art jail has 24-hour video surveillance, has a heavy law enforcement presence and is across the street from the Redwood City Police Department.​San Mateo County is one of the first in California to implement the exchange zone.

The Los Angeles Police Department, Operations-South Bureau introduced E-Commerce Exchange Zones on June 27. The intent is to provide locations to encourage people to conduct online transactions inside the lobbies of nine LAPD stations in the Operations-South and West Bureau's.

This is the first time the LAPD has been a part of providing exchange zone locations for these types of transactions.

To reduce instances of crimes occurring during online transactions, the Anderson County, S.C. Sheriff's Office has teamed up with SafeTrade.

The sheriff's office has designated two parking spots at the front left of its parking lot as "SafeTrade Zones," where buyers and sellers can conduct transactions at a location under surveillance from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

The Calaveras County (Calif.) Sheriff’s Office has designated two parking spaces in its public parking area as a “Safe Trading Zone” for people who want to buy or sell items but are worried about their safety.

The location is in the Sheriff’s Office parking lot at 1045 Jeff Tuttle Drive in San Andreas. Buyers and sellers will find the parking spaces on the right side as they exit the parking lot. There is an identifying sign at the two parking spaces.

The parking lot is well-lit and monitored by video surveillance cameras 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. However, the Sheriff's Office recommends that transactions be made during daylight hours.

Police in Fremont, Calif., have set up an “exchange zone” at the police department's front parking lot so people can meet there to buy or sell items posted on Craigslist and other online sites in safety.

Two parking spaces in the lot have been marked with yellow lines and signs that let people know the area is video- and audio-recorded 24 hours a day.​Police officers will not be stationed at the parking lots to oversee exchanges and won’t be monitoring the video and audio live. Police recommend that transactions take place between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, which coincides with business hours of when the front desk is open.